A. THORENS, The philosophy of life of Maurice Merleau-Ponty: life as a creative power of lifeworlds, RThPh 2005/III, p. 227-244.
This article is an attempt to draw out the understanding of life according to Merleau- Ponty, particularly in his teaching on Nature, 1957-1958, at the Collège de France. In order to bring out specific points, the writer compares this point of view with that of Martin Heidegger in his course of 1929-1930, What is metaphysics. This leads her to confront the heideggerian notion of “Umring” with Merleau-Ponty’s “Umwelt”, and there to discover life as a creative power of lifeworlds.